Tips for Operating Used Excavator Safely and Effectively

Do you know how to operate used excavator? Excavators take the advantage of hydraulics to get huge power and these machines could be used for heavy digging projects. The huge buckets equipped on these machines could move amounts of soil and pour the soil into trucks. When you need to complete the mentioned task in the considerably small place, the compact models should be chosen. There are many manufacturers specializes in producing mini excavators, such as used Volvo excavators and so on. For home projects, the compact excavators would be much more helpful.

How to start the mini excavator?
Get into the cab and make yourself sit on the operators' seat. Tighten the safe belt and insert the ignition key. In order to turn on the hydraulics, you need to lower the left armrest. In order to improve the power of the machine, you need to increase the throttle. Especially while you are planning to accomplish heavy project, full throttle is essential.

How to move forward and backward of the machine?
The operators could move the machine to any direction through the pedals installed at the bottom. There are two pedals and each of them is used to control the movement of one of the tracks. To move in direct direction, the pedals should be pressed at the same time with same force. To turn around, the force on one of the pedals should be larger than the force on the other.

To operate used excavator to dig trenches or holes, you need to know how to control the boom. While pushing the right joystick, the main boom would be lowered down while pulling the joystick, it would be raised. The secondary boom is used to connect the bucket and the main boom. It could be controlled by the left joystick. With the cooperation of the left joystick and right joystick, the bucket could be controlled properly. Push the right joystick to the left, you would curl the bucket. On the contrary, the bucket would be uncurled. And if you need to move the bucket to the right, you only need to push the left joystick to the right and vice versa. In order to insure the safety, you need to understand the know-how. In order to reduce the vibration during operation, you should lower the blade. Although the used excavator is endowed with stable structure, the other people should not be allowed to walk under the boom during operation.